Escapement
By Jay Lake

Genre: Science Fiction
Hardcover
383 pages
Published by Tor Books
Published June 2008
ISBN: 0765317095 / 9780765317094

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Paolina Barthes is a young woman of remarkable intellectual ability--a genius on the level of Isaac Newton. But she has grown up in isolation, in a small village of shipwreck survivors, on the Wall in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She knows little ofthe world, but she knows that England rules it, and must be the home of people who possess the learning that she so desperately wants. And so she sets off to make her way off the Wall, not knowing that she will bring her astounding, unschooled talent forsorcery to the attention of those deadly factions who would use or kill her for it.A follow-up to "Mainspring" finds genius sorceress Paolina Barthes, a shipwreck survivor who grew up in isolation on the immense Equatorial Wall in the middle of the ocean, setting out in the hopes of acquiring an education, only to be exploited by thosewho would use her powers for their own means.
 

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